How will you know you have met these goals?
Clinical Pastoral Education
The essential ingredients in CPE include ministry with people, detailed reporting and evaluation of pastoral work, individual supervision, peer group learning and reading. Your continuing in the programme is at the discretion of your supervisor.
- Reason for taking CPE:
CPE enables the utilisation of religious tradition, religious comprehension, and cognitive science expertise in pastoral care for individuals or communities. CPE begins with a journey of intensive learning about oneself and providing pastoral care within abilities and limits.
CPE improves my capacity to operate within an interdisciplinary team as a pastoral member. Furthermore, CPE increases my ability to use pastoral viewpoint and expertise in a range of roles, including preaching, instructing, management, pastoral care and counselling.
Through CPE, I will be mindful of how my beliefs and preconceptions influence my work as a missionary. CPE will facilitate my in-depth personal understanding of human nature by combining the disciplines of religion and behavioural science.
CPE will facilitate an in-depth personal understanding of human nature by combining the disciplines of religion and behavioural science.
Through CPE, my traits and pastoral abilities may be integrated via peer support, conflict and explanation. CPE will teach me the skills necessary for self-evaluation, working with my supervisor and oversight to assess my pastoral work.
- State your goals for the CPE Unit:
(a) Personal:
To build upon my confidence in ensuring that I can convey to communicate clearly as I am Deaf and able to lip read. At times, it may be challenging, but I will overcome this by being confident and asking the person to repeat what they have said.
To acquire self-knowledge to the degree that permits pastoral care to be offered within my strengths and limitations.
To develop my pastoral understanding of the several functions, such as preaching, teaching, and administration, to transform other people’s lives.
(b) Pastoral:
To develop the ability to use my faith, theological understanding and knowledge of behavioural in the pastoral care for individuals and groups.
To work as a pastoral care member of an interdisciplinary team and assume a leadership role, when necessary.
To build a good pastoral connection for individuals and groups.
To be an effective communicator and having the confidence to ask for repetition when needed.
(c) Professional:
To show an increased ability to deal with theological and moral issues that deliver CPE’s efficacy.
To be competent in self-evaluation and working with my peer group to evaluate my pastoral work in align with spiritual guidance.
Write 2-3 goals (not more than three) for each of the areas above. The goals need to be specific (not too broad) and concise (a couple of lines). Please align your goals with the objectives of CPE.
- How do you wish to accomplish these goals?
Through my passion and commitment, I will overcome personal challenges is vital in attaining my goals. For example, I could deliver my message to them by connecting with the patients to ensure that we understand each other despite my deafness. Also, interpretation is required to provide safe, satisfactory, and quality care to patients by collaborating with the interdisciplinary teams for the consensus on spiritual inputs in offering overall care.
- How will you know you have met these goals?
By a personal reflection examining how I progressed from day one to the end of the course. By being successful in resolving emotional issues and crises quickly for patients. That result in quick healing among the patients. If my counsel to patients who experience life-threatening illnesses can transform them to reconsider their ways will meet my goals. The feedback that I receive from my supervisor and peers I take immediate action in implementing their advice which is vital to help me attain my goals.
